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Lawrence, KS

Lawrence, KS is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 10 tracked employers at a $105,997 median H-1B wage across 227 LCAs.

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10
Employers
$105,997
Median H-1B wage
227
H-1B filings

Lawrence, KS: 10 tracked employers at a $105,997 median H-1B wage across 227 LCAs; Professional & Technical Services leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Lawrence, KS (KS), PlainEmployers rolls up 10 employers at a $105,997 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 10 employers
  • $105,997 median H-1B
  • 227 H-1B LCAs

Where Lawrence, KS's median H-1B wage sits nationally

Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row

$105,997 Top 66% higher than 34% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows

$0–$20,000: 1 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $20,000–$40,000: 401 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $40,000–$60,000: 7,591 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Below this entry. $60,000–$80,000: 24,066 credible H-1B wage rows (9%). Below this entry. $80,000–$100,000: 43,829 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Below this entry. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). This entry sits in this band. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Above this entry. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). Above this entry. $160,000–$180,000: 22,983 credible H-1B wage rows (8%). Above this entry. $180,000–$200,000: 15,711 credible H-1B wage rows (6%). Above this entry. $200,000–$220,000: 10,825 credible H-1B wage rows (4%). Above this entry. $220,000–$240,000: 6,806 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Above this entry. $240,000–$260,000: 4,579 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. $260,000–$280,000: 2,975 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $280,000–$300,000: 1,671 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $300,000–$320,000: 5,015 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. Lawrence, KS $0 $320,000 every credible H-1B wage row, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more credible H-1B wage rows. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026

Metro Labor Presence

Lawrence, KS (10 employers) sits beside Overland Park, KS, Wichita, KS, Lenexa, KS in KS's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Lawrence, KS ranks #978 of 6906 by employer count (about the 84th percentile).

Overland Park, KS 125 Wichita, KS 61 Lenexa, KS 24 Kansas City, KS 22 Topeka, KS 18 Olathe, KS 18
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesEducational ServicesUtilitiesManufacturing

What the data says about Lawrence, KS

Corpus placement: Lawrence, KS ranks #978 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 84th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 5 of 10 tracked employers (~50%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: McKesson Corporation, The University of Kansas, and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (173 filings combined, ~76% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Lawrence, KS: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: McKesson Corporation, The University of Kansas, and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, together 173 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Lawrence, KS reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 50% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

McKesson Corporation plus The University of Kansas account for about 76% of Lawrence, KS's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.

No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are currently mapped to employers with a worksite in Lawrence, KS in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Within KS, Lawrence, KS is smaller than peers such as Overland Park, KS (125 employers); Wichita, KS (61 employers); Lenexa, KS (24 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

Top employers in Lawrence, KS

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 McKesson Corporation Professional & Technical Services 90 $163,415
2 The University of Kansas Educational Services 55 $79,458
3 Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Professional & Technical Services 28 $67,203
4 Siri Software Solutions LLC Professional & Technical Services 22 $94,983
5 Socure, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 11 $275,000
6 The Lawrence Memorial Hospital 10 $69,442
7 On Computer Services LLC Utilities 4 $87,503
8 Pronto General Agency, Inc. 4 $82,686
9 Kansas Athletics, Inc. Educational Services 1 $70,000
10 Screen-It Graphics of Lawrence, Inc. Manufacturing 1 $65,000
11 The Roark Group LLC Professional & Technical Services 1 $66,560
Sources, citation, and related links for Lawrence, KS

Disclaimer: The Lawrence, KS overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.

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PlainEmployers renders Lawrence, KS from DOL H-1B disclosure filings and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.